Hajiyev, BeyrakBeyrakHajiyev2025-09-042025-09-042025-08-23https://top-center.org/en/analytics/3794/recasting-multi-vectorism-a-western-anchored-strategy-for-azerbaijan http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/8071https://rims.khazar.org/handle/123456789/300The rapid erosion of the liberal international order has generated multiple dislocations in the South Caucasus, placing Azerbaijan at the crossroads of competing region-building projects. As the unipolar, neoliberal framework recedes, Azerbaijan’s long-standing multi-vector foreign policy faces mounting challenges under intensifying external pressures. During the unipolar era, international institutions anchored in liberal norms provided a stabilizing framework that subordinated regional processes to broader systemic imperatives. In the South Caucasus, this produced a relatively stable and predictable environment, effectively freezing many regional conflicts.entext::journal::journal article